Two historic treasures travel from China to Greece

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On Friday, two treasures from the Shanghai Museum were exhibited at the Athens Acropolis Museum, for an exhibition that will last until April 30 next year. It comes with the memorandum of cooperation which was signed between the two museums and is also part of the 2017 Greece-China Year of Cultural Exchanges and Cooperation in Creative Industries.

The first object, a hand scroll entitled "Traveling along the Clear Water", which was painted by the Qing Dynasty artist Wu Hong in the 17th century. Visitors can see this at the entrance of the Acropolis Museum, which is located at the foot of the Athens Acropolis.

Part of the scroll painting"Traveling along the Clear Water" / www.cgw.gr Photo

The second antique is the water vessel of Zi Zhong Jiang, which dates back to the Early Spring and Autumn Period (the 7th century BC). Inside the vessel are figures of aquatic birds, frogs, turtles and fish. The basin was made for Princess Zi Zhong Jiang and considered as one of the most important exhibits in the Shanghai Museum.

The water vessel of Zi Zhong Jiang /Xinhua Photo

The two antiquities being loaned are a marble statue of a Kore (520-510 BC), one of the most beautiful and well preserved sculptures of the Acropolis, which retains traces of its archaic colors, and a red-figure lekanida lid showing a Dionysian scene (350-325 BC).

"This is an opening to a very significant, a great civilization. Given the fact that there is great interest from the Chinese side in our civilization and art, we decided to launch this cooperation with the museum of Shanghai," President of the Acropolis museum Professor Dimitris Pantermalis explained.

The exchange of the exhibits between the two museums is the first of many steps outlined in their cultural exchange agreement.

In the framework of cooperation between the two museums, two exquisite objects from the Acropolis Museum will be exhibited in a Chinese museum from January 11 to April 8, 2018.

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Source(s): Xinhua News Agency